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package org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.fsdataset;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;
import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
/**
* This interface specifies the policy for choosing volumes to store replicas.
*/
@InterfaceAudience.Private
public interface VolumeChoosingPolicy<V extends FsVolumeSpi> {
/**
* Choose a volume to place a replica,
* given a list of volumes and the replica size sought for storage.
*
* The implementations of this interface must be thread-safe.
*
* @param volumes - a list of available volumes.
* @param replicaSize - the size of the replica for which a volume is sought.
* @return the chosen volume.
* @throws IOException when disks are unavailable or are full.
*/
public V chooseVolume(List<V> volumes, long replicaSize) throws IOException;
}